The Vatican has made public its 1974 decision denying the authenticity of Marian apparitions alleged to have occurred in Amsterdam between 1945 and 1959.

Russian forces have driven out all Greek and Roman Catholic clergy from the occupied areas of Ukraine, said the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The French Catholic Church will welcome athletes and spectators to Paris this summer during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

A July 8 attack by Russia on a children’s hospital and other civilian targets throughout Ukraine is “a sin that cries out to heaven for revenge,” said the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem issued a strong condemnation after the Israeli military targeted a Catholic school in Gaza that killed four people, including a senior Hamas official.

Ten years ago, an Islamic State group attacked and took over areas of Syria and Iraq, destroying property and killing members of religious minorities, including Christians who had made their home in the Nineveh region for more than 1,000 years.

Pope Francis will meet with young people, the marginalized, government officials, bishops, priests, religious and missionaries, when he travels to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore in September.

With the help of donations from the U.S. Bishops’ Conference and the Vatican, Archbishop Max Leroy Mésidor of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, plans to forge ahead through a time of violence and instability and hold an early August ordination ceremony for two new auxiliary bishops.

In what he said was the most dramatic moment of his eight visits to Ukraine, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, papal almoner, appealed from a Ternopil cemetery that the world needs to help Ukraine without further delays so that the “nonsense of war” stops.